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Unions to Strike for Above-Inflation Wage Hike from Sibanye-Stillwater

SOUTH AFRICA
  • The miner, which says a strike will be devastating to its operations, maintains that the unions’ wage demands are unaffordable
  • Industrial action is looming in the gold sector after mineworkers affiliated to a coalition of disgruntled unions elected to go on a strike over their demands for above-inflation increases at gold miner Sibanye-Stillwater.
  • Workers belonging to the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), Uasa, and Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu), elected to down tools during a mass meeting held at Carletonville outside Johannesburg on Sunday
MNI London Bureau | +44 020-3983-7894 | murray.nichol@marketnews.com
MNI London Bureau | +44 020-3983-7894 | murray.nichol@marketnews.com

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